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THE BEE: OMAHA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1912. THE OMAHA DAILY BEX toCXUED BT KDWAItrf ROSBWATER VICTOR ROSEWATER. ED1TOH. "jse-iv iiUilOJl.VU. KAKNAM ANI 1TTH. Enured at Omaha ioio.'lic aa attcoad rlttw matter. TERMS Of StTUSCHiKTlON. -(Sundy Be. -on year StiS Saturday Bes, one year H-W Pally Be (without Sunday) on yaar.KW -Ually Bee, and Sunday, one Tear....S-00 DELIVERED VX CARRIER. Evening and Sunday, per month Wo Evening without Sunday, per month.. 2bo JJaily ure Uncludmt Sunday) per nu..e Deftv Be without Sunday), per mo.. Address all complaints or !rrrr!arfts to delivery to City Circulation PPt RMITTAKCS , . Remit by draft, expresa or postal order, payable to The Be Publishing company. Only f-cent stamp rsce ved In payment ot mall aeoounta Peraonal oheoka, ex cept oa Omaha and eastwrn xcbange, not accepted. " OFriCEa Omaha-The Be bultdinf. South Omaha-Sli N 8t Council Bluffa-H No. Mala St Lincoln- Little bulldln-. Chlcaao W1 Marquette building. Kanaaa City-Relianc building. New Tork-M Weil Twenty-third. (H. Louis-Ms Pierce building. w Washlneton 72S Fourteenth Bt N. w- CORRESPONDENCE. Communications relating to editorial matter should be addreaeea Omaha Boa, Editorial Daparttaent SEPTEMBER CIRCULATION. 50,154 Stat ef Kahraak. CountV ot DoUglSS. Dwight WUiiams, circulation manager of The Bee PUDlMuing coropaw. duly I worn, aaya that th arorage dally Circulation for the montn 01 oepienmci, 1812, waa 60.164. D WIGHT WILLIAMS, emulation Manager. Subscribed In my preaenoa and f0 to before me thii 1st r "" ' 1911 ROBERT HUNTER. (Seal.) Notary PubH abcrir learlagc the city tessaararily she-alt The Be walled to ffcesa. Addreee will be ekaas as aftea aa r. , eiaeateet A Milepost of IrogTess. Ak-Sar-Ben la a Nebraska institu tion and an Omaha festival. It is now eighteen years of age. In that brief period what progress has been made In the state and city, conxmer clally and socially! For the unique feature of Ak-Sar-Ben is that it so happily combines business with pleasure. Thus it never grows old, never loses its fascination and hold upon the people. Lacking this ele ment, other festivals in other cities have failed and come to untimely ends.( The future of Ak-Sar-Ben should be even more brilliant than its past has been. But it is as a milestone of prog ress that it now attracts special at tention. Its first street parade was given with floats bought from New Orleans. This year it sells its floats to another city hundreds of miles away, and its great pageant passes in review before the mighty camera of a moving picture photographer, to be preserved in record and reeled off to the edification of thousands later. 'J ..-'.,' . What would King Ak-Sar-Ben . I have thought of that?? What did he know about; such a, thing as a moving picture of such proportions? And this has come about In much less than eighteen years. .Tei that is nothing as compared with the teem ing panorama' of progress and de velopment Btretching out over the state in this period. ' Just, how much the spirit' of . Ak-Sar-Ben has had to do with all this unfolding, process we cannot say, except that H is very considerable. ' J - - V ? '' The Balkans continue to balk on peace. ' The weather man should know that floats do not really float, ' Kindly note thaf-he aays "down with the bosses," not, "the boss." - Lincoln hag hardly evened the core, but we will carry the balance . over to next year's accounts. Ak-Sar-Ben almost missed, out on the key to the city. But he would not have needed it. ".-. ,- Barak Bernhardt is to : tell the world the secret of youth. At how much per tell? v 1 "Parker told the truth." , Well what of it? If he disagreed with the colonel, he's a liar just the same. Dr. Wood Hutchinson advises bath ing three times a day, without telling us what to do with the other hour, So far as anyone can, see now This Bay iaOmak CaktPiL&D ('ROM BE.E FILM OCT. 4- 1 BARTHOLDT'S ANSWER TO ROOSEVELT v, i - Gives tie Pacts and Then Asks Who is toe Highwayman! here is no way of fixing the theft ot the Mpna Lisa npoa tb( Chicago con entlon. -fvvf '. If the Society of American Indians ecldes to hold its 1913 convention In bmaha, 'it "will, find oi of good Indians here.u.' j V 3-V tVJ . ., 1 , ...... ' ' I This is a day of specialists, but peo ple so often disregard the' fact by se lecting untrained and 'inexperienced public wTantSi.,,-,;:.'j..'i?.i. ! , , , 0a High Moral Ground. The progressives are more anxious than anybody now to give the Tail Ca their own electors. It Is a necessary move, if anybody on the state ticket I to l pulled through. Lincoln Journal.1 , Well, well, welll. This is' surely moving on' high moral ground. ' ' If the Rooseveltlans pull their elec tors off the republican ticket in Ne braska, it is not to be because they shudder at the dishonesty of flaunt ing f also labels. '. ;.: If the Rooseveltlans give up the purloined places, It will not bo be cause they do not want to keep what does not belong to them. ' . , . . ' . If the Roosevelt electors withdraw from the republican ticket, the only 'motive actuating them will be fear that their fraud may lebound on cer tain candidates for state offices in danger of reprisals on account of their disloyalty to the republican na tional standard bearers. i But perhaps republicans should not look too, closely in.tq, the motives 'of the "thou-shalt-not-Bteal"' Roose 'velt' electors, A reward "with no Questions atked" is 6ften given for :the return of stolen property,'. i 'Wealth didn't sway T. R ," says a bull, moose organ. All right, what did, in the case of the late Mr. Harrl maa, for instance? - . ; . . ''.: Some Texas lawyers have agreed to go out in the fields' and help the farmers pick cotton. ' Might as jweil, they will get It anyways i , f : A beauty doctor tells ns to watch the shoulder blades to' see' that they do not protrude. She, must take us for a lot of rubber necks. ' -' Our generous Water board has (handed out $15,000 more for lawyers' fees. It is a little late in the seasoji, however, for trips to Europe. The flowers that bloom In the spring may have nothing to do with the case, but not so the flowers that bloom in Ak-Sar-Ben parades. King Ak-Sar-Ben does not overlook any of his subjects. He has specta cles and entertainments to suit the wants of man, woman and child. : "Coniemtion"',tnd 'Common Sense. jdoctor hw practjes is tarried on largely through public prints, rails at humanity because it has lagged be hind the. hog Jh the matter of breed ing . How.doea he know? Ha knows, perhaps, that much attention has been given to th impoyement of the breed of swine in the last forty years, but is he right sure that the breed ing of men and women has been over looked, during that time? If it has, then; the doctor and all i his fellow practitioners have lived In vain; As a matter of fact, f. while stud books, and 'registered pedigrees do not figure prominently In the record of mankind, the race has been stead ily improving In all essential regards since the first troglodyte stood' erect oh his nether limbs and began to co ordinate articulate sound. The so called conservationists who want to reduce us to the condition of prize stock, and' regulate our matlnga as those of the lower order of animals are -regulated, .are simply running counter to every human instinct. There Is no proof that mankind Is degenerating; in no material regard does the race show any signs of deter loration. '.-.". . -;. Conservation of humanity is wor thy of consideration at all times, but it must be tempered with common sense to becom e effective. Thirty Years Ago j An event in society was the marriage of iYJr. Theodore L. Rlngwalt of the Bur lington headquarters and Miss Minnie Leonora Hall, a nleoe of Bishop Clark ion. The aervlce at the church was ren dered by Bishop Clarkson, aaslsted by Dean Mlllspaugh and Father Williams. Mlse Hall looked lovely in an exquisite dress of pur white and wore the conven tional orange blossoms lr her hair." Mlsa Phoebe Cousins, "the famous yoman lawyer of St Louis and the re nowned woman auffraglst," delivered her lecture, "Woman Without a Country," at Boyd's theater despite threatening weather. . . ' "It will pay any one to get up at 4 a. m. to see the big comet, which Is a bias ing beauty." . , ' , ', ' Superintendent Taylor of the Bradstreet company left for Bait Xke City to look after his Interests lit Utah, and during his absence Superintendent J", B. 'Wood row is )n charge. General Sherman has ordered General Howard to revoke his order forbidding Sunday dress parades In the Department of the Platte. - WUHan? H. Whlttaker has succeeded to the position of his uncle, J. H. Whlttaker, as superintendent of . the Omaha Nail works, the latter having removed to Cali fornia, Twenty Years Ago - Two little erlrls playing In. the, South Omaha railroad tracks ran upon the body of a man, who proved to be Mayor C. P. Miller f the Maglo City. He had been shot In the head and the wound was pronounced fa tel. The circumstances of the shooting could not be learned at that time. ' ' . . ,; C. N. Lyons, a real estate man, handed his . valise to a stranger, asking him. to hold It while Lyons bought a ticket at the depot, where ht was about to take a train. The stranger accommodated him and when Lyons turned' to take his grip ne was shocked to find no stranger nor vause. . W. A. Paxton took out a building per mit for a four-story brick warehouse at Tenth and Jones streets costing S1S.O0Q. A building- permit waa Issued to M. U garrotte for a $5,000 dwelling at Twenty, sixth and Harney streets. me Morning; Star mission of Seward Street Methodist church gave the can tata, "Queen Bather" at the Touna Men'a Christian association In the evening to a sooo-sijsea number and received much praise ror Its excellence. ' Ten Years Afro- Jay Buckingham and Clyde Drew were oit in tne vicinity of Bassett on a hunt Ing trip. ' George W. Holbrook, auditor of King man & Co., returned from Kansas City and St. Louis, where he had been on Business. , 4 - , . . c , - I J. H. Mickey, republican nominee for governor, spent the day at South Omaha, visiting the stock yards and talking with men and managers. Word cama from New York that Frank Murphy, president ot the Omaha Street Railway company, had left there for Omaha, expecting to tarry a day or two at " Chicago. ' Until his .arrival nothing definite could b announced as, to sal or transfer of the controlling interest in the company, in connection with which he had gone east,-..". . : Great excitement reigned over' plans for a woman's ping-pong tourney in (he ping-pong alleys In The Be building. Handsome prises for the winners were being provided .by tba gallant young men In charge. u. Word was received -by friends here of the death In Wyoming, 111.; tt Henry E. Cox, SS years of age.' " The Crelghtcm foot ball team beat th Omaha Medics on the Crelghton fleM by a score of 10 to 0. "! '' ' . ' ' Now if we only had a few political angels In Nebraska like "Boss" Fllnn ready to chip In $100,000 for a pri mary fight, wouldn't things hum? ? . The other fellows .who get the ot fices are doubtless willing enough to let the Bryans and the Metcalfes fur nish the respectability for the demo cratic party. Perhaps the man who is not Inter ested In politics may find something to occupy him in the cablegram, that reports from Calcutta Indicate a rise in the price of burlaps. Still Morgan, Prick, Gould and Archbold are probably Just as much interested in making this country a fit place for their children to live In as are "Boss" Flinn or George W. Perkins.' Dr. Pearson, the one rich man to succeed in dying poor, leaves a host ot grasping relatives suing to recover some of his benefactions. This should be an object lesson to Messrs. Rockefeller and Carnegie'. Let them first make their peace . with their nieces, nephevs and second cousins before they give away all they have. , Salter's Nomination, y . Whatever else may be claimed for Congressman .William Suher as the democratic nominee for governor of New York, that of the. office seeking the man surety will not,, for this Is the seventh attempt Sulzer has made to land the prise.- A veiled threat will be made, no doubt, to show that Sulzer's victory is a Tammany defeat. But here is the situation according to the most au thentlc sources, democratic newspa papera included: , "obs Murph abso lutely dominated the convention, holding all hut' a very few delegates In the hollow of his hand, Just as he had done when. Governor Dlx was nominated two years ao. - ' Being known to prefer Dlx's renom-J lnatlon did the boss of Tammany hall suddenly decide to abdicate his power to name the man? . No, convinced that Dlx : could . not win, Murphy simply exchanged him for a man who possibly might. The lot fell on Sui ter, who was also Hearst's choice With Hearst and Tammany once more working together and up-state demo crats following on,' victory, it was thought, might be saved. ' - The democrats' weakness, then, is Dlx's failure, followed Jy h'is repudi ation, and their second, tl. condl Hons of Sulzer's selection. ' ' People Talked About Presidential straw votes, guesses and claims serva only to increase the Irrita tion of the doubters. There Is precious little hops of relief until Oeneral Charles H. Grosvenor of Ohio speaks. All others are false prophets. John Elmer Hedges, republican nominee for governor of New York, Is Just ver M, a lawyer by profession, a "mixer" by nature, an experienced campaigner, pos sessing a flow of oratory and anecdote rivalling the ' best efforts of Chauncy Depew....- '..; .. , v A Chicago court rules that a young man with a widowed mother to support must postpone his ; wedding until h'a wages are large enough to support three persons. As . might be expected, this seam at "love a young dream ' comes from a bachelor judge. Political Indications point to unusually high winds In Maryland and vicinity. A match, for the championship has been arranged between W. Bourke Cockrau, bull moose, and Senator Rayner, demo crat Storm flags will be run up as toon as the dates of , th . disturbance are settled. j i ' - ' , It Is sad to reflect at this stage of tht battle that there isn't a ghost of a show of bestowing upon Cartoonist John T. McCutcheon, as reward , for well earned merit, the ambassadorship to the court of St. James or envoy-extraordinary to the court of King Menelik. Honors as well as spoils go to the winners. - Mrs. Chang, widow of a Chinese of ficial, Is the edltor-ln-chief of the Peking woman's paper, which Is devoted entirely to subjects Interesting to her sex. Be sides Mrs. Chang's paper there are eight others In Peking edited, printed and sold by women. In Canton' there are four. In Shanghai six and In Foochow three. ; Major J. M. Carson, one of the old-time Washington correspondents of the Phil adelphia Ledger.' is dead at his home In Philadelphia, aired 76 years. The major won his title In the civil war, waa one ot the founders - of the gridiron club of Washington and was widely esteemed ss a reliable and genial leader of the newspaper corps at the national capital. William Dengler, father-in-law of Chief of Police J. X. Tillard, who makes hla home with hla daughter at Altoona, Pa., Is in his eighty-third years and was aot qualnted with Abraham Lincoln. Mr. Dengler, who was born in , Schuylkill county, when a boy learned the trad ot gunsmith and when a young man re moved to Freeport, I1L, where r plied his trade. . . . v Apolosira to tba Cawboy. OFF PLTMftwTH, England. Sept. U Colonel Theodore .Roosevelt, Oyster Bay, N. T. Dear Sir: In the newspaper of September 5-the morning I sailed for Europe you are reported as having used the following language at Das Moines, la-, to-wit: I see Mr. What's-hls-name. that con gressman from St. Louis, Bartholdt he is one of the highwayman has asked Mr. Cummins to debate the Texas, Cali fornia and Washington oontests at Chi cago. I hope Mr. Cummins will reiuae, for the reason - that I wouldn't debate with a pickpocket the ' ownership of a watch he has Just stolen. It the police are handy, I'll band him over to them. If they are not I'll tend to him myself. Any man, any candidate for governor or other office who has knowledge of the facts, and supports Mr. Taft gives us the right to ssy that ha Is not competent to pass upon honesty In public life. I shall not, attempt to answer you In kind, as to do so would mean to stoop to the level of tba 'cowboy In speech, and manners, with apologies to the cowboy. Nor shall I discuss with you the merits of the Chicago contests, for your expected fulmlnatlons on this subject show you to be either guilty of persistent prevarica tion of else Ignorant of all knowledge of the facts concerning it In assuming the later everybody will admit that, in the face of the printed evidence, I am taking charitable view. And Just one more word on this score. After your defeat In November when you will have leisure to study the record you will find that every delegate who was seated at Chicago rjy decision first of the national committee, then of the committee on credentials, and finally of the convention itself, was hon estly entitled to his seat This has not' been true," as you will know, of all na tional convention held by either party in tne past, but It Is true of the Chicago convention of 1912. The situation was SO I serious ' -aa to dlncnnmo-. 'at the outset any political trickery, and an members of the national committee with whom T conferred, agreed that if thero was anything that could allay the excite ment and heal the breach in the republi can party caused by your Ill-advised can didacy, it was the square deal, and by its decisions the committee religiously lived up to that conviction. The only fraud at tempted at Chicago emanated from your side In the shape of the fake ..contests styled as. "psyoological" by your own press and condemned and voted down by your own friends. Who, then, is the high wayman? It may be said that the demo cratic states and the smaller states should tiftt hava been permitted to control the nomination,' but that Is an entirely dif ferent matter, and the national commit tee could certainly not be expected and had no right to change a system which had been In Vogue for half a century merely to make your nomination posslbla For one, I voted in each case as the facts warranted and my conscience dictated, and being convinced of the Justice of the committee's decisions, I have challenged Senator "Cummins, who 'bases his opposi tion to President .Taft' on the disposition of the contests, to produce his evidencs to the contrary and meet me in Joint discussion on any platform he may designate. . , .'. . ' J ' CTi-rPcter Aaaannlnatloa No Answer. However, tils letter is not intended as an argument . You would not admit the truth concerning the contests even If you were convinced (of, it because It would knock, th props from under your candi dacy.' I venture these lines father In an j eiiort ,to show-: that your, reckless at. tempts -at character- assassination are not a sufficient answer to the reasons and well grounded arguments of "those who oppose you, myself included. Before I proceed to the enumeration of thes I reasons, let, me suggest that Tt have known you since you served ytfur flrtt ' term In the" New'v York assembly thirty years ago,, that I served In congress-during the Urns you were assistant secre tary of the navy as well as during your two presidential terms, that,! was your friend and admirer, and In 1904 helped to organise . me National Roosevelt league, of which I was chosen president, and through which the citlsens of Ger man birth and descent were rallied to your support. . This much to establish the qualifications of the, "high way men" as a witness in the present case.. My reasons for opposing your candidacy art the following, towlt t Roosevelt Tool t the Traats. L I charge you with being consciously or unconsciously the tool of the Steel and Harvester trusts. If President Taft had disregarded th law and the' interests of the people as you have done, through your failure to prosecute thesa trusts, he would hav had no opposition for re- nomination. But the moment he had authorised his attorney general to In stitute proceedings, thes powerful com binations looked around for a candidate with whom to beat Mr. Taft and they settled on you and furnished all th money deemed necessary to carry the primaries. These interests had a double motive for their political activity even aside from their desire to swallow up the government as a. means of offense. Not only did they wish to get even with Presi dent Taft, but they wanted to pay you a debt of gratitude for allowing them, in violation or low, to absorb their only nvai, tne Tennessee Coal and Iron Co.. a transaction through which untold mil lions were pocketed by the very men who. financed your preconvention as well as your present campaign. ;y - - ' , i. cnaiienge your sincerity In the championship, of . progressiva; measures and assert It to be aa insane ambition and not an honest deslr for progress and reform, which prompted your , can didacy. Why "did nof you "nronoa all toes new plans whll . you were atlll president and had the power-to carry them out? Instead you sneered at Senator La Follett and his followers. Your voluminous "confession of faith" bv which you tell the people In 33.000 words what you omitted to do While president will convince them, not of the sincerity of your conversion, but of your growing ambition for self-aggrandisement and power. , Violates a Solemn Promlae! - I I charge you with a violation of a solemn promise , given to th American People when you declared that under no circumstances would you accept another nomination. Your subsequent explana tlon that you had In mind only a "con seouttve term" is a subterfuge and an after-thought, and every sane American cltisen la convinced of that fact. t Ism opposed to your candidacy be cause It Is for a third term. There may be a growing disregard In some quarters for time-honored American traditions, but I know of one element of the popula tion, which, because ot their Inherent love of freedom, will always reverently bow to them. I refer to the American Germans. They rallied around "the ban ners of Washington to fight for American independence, responded anthuslastlcalty to the can of Abraham Lincoln to save the union and free tha slaves, helped to av the credit and honor of the country by supporting, almost Irrespective of party, the cause of sound money, and In the present emergency, thar will again be actuated by their love of liberty and not consent to this free government being delivered to the hands of 'a dictator, for to tbatr mlnda this la what a third, fourth or fifth term In the presidency would mean. I am not a prophet, but my knowledge of the American people war rants this prediction: What Washington would not have. Grant could aot have, Roosevelt should not and will not have. Deliberate Overthrow of CoaaUta tiom. . S. I charge you .with a deliberate ef fort to overthrow the constitution and the courts, for this and nothing else,, Is what the proposed recall of judges, and judicial decisions means. If the constitu tional guarantees which vouchsafe our Inalienable rights and their .enjoyment by a minority are to be overthrown by th passing whims of a majority, 'why have a constitution at all and why courts? .Th. will of the' majority decreeing one thing today and another- tomorrow,- will be the new Gessler hat to borrow a simile from the Tell story hung up on a high post to which the American people would have to bend their knees as the sol emblem of authority in the land. .1 fancy the Ameri can people are not quite ready to be ruled ieither by an Individual despot or by the despotism of a majority and will prefer the timely and necessary Judicial reform proposed by President Taft to the revolu tion proposed by you, - -.'! Responsible for Defeat of Peace Treaties. -" ;' ; !"'; " ' ' ' ' . I charge' you with responsibility; for the defeat of the arbitration treaties,' the greatest ' progressive " measure v yet .pr. posed by an American president. T These treaties signified the first practical step In the direction of a peaceful settlement of all future international controversies. and Would: eventually have resulted, , as other nations would surely have emulated the American example. In general agree ments for the reduction of armaments, and consequently. In the relief of , th human family from intolerable burdens. Ths same as In the case of reciprocity which you both favored and opposed, you advocated the gospel of . peace in your Christiana speech, but Immediately began knocking it when President Taft submitted a concrete plan to carry It out The deciding vote by which th treaties were emasculated was cast by your own political manager, Senator ' Dixon, who had favored them up to the time of a visit with you at New York on the night preceding the vote in the senate. -' Your opposition evidently was prompted by envy and jealousy of President Taft's possible success In the matter of this great world reform. The United States was, i by Dixon's vote, robbed of, the prestige of leadership in the movement for international peace, and no tru friend of arbitration, on that score alone, will ever again countenance your candi dacy for the highest office, in the gift of the people. : .. . . ', ,7, I hold jip to the sober Judgment of the American people your denial of all knowledge of the 1100.000 contributed to your campaign by the Standard Oil com pany In 1904. All you knew of everything else' connected with that campaign that denial represents ' one of the most re markable Issues of this remarkable csm palgn. We are all fools, of ; cdurse; In supposing that trust magnates In con tflbuting will Insist on receiving' the benefit ' of the Candidate's ; knowledge, The testimony before the senate com mittee shows that above amount Was ac tually contributed in September and had already been expended when, In October, to keep the record1 straight, you wrote Cortelyou not to accept any corporation contributions. But why go; hack . as far as 1904, When the present campaign fur nishes so. Instructive an, object lesson? George W. Perkins. Frank MunBey, Meaill MoCormlck, Dan Hanna and. others have been, publicly charged with having' fur- nished . your sinews - of . war . sine yod threw your 'hat into th ring., and you have never denied It. And are not these men th representatives of fh Steel and Harvester trusts, namely the trusts. pro tected by you and prosecuted by PresU cient Tart 7 And as the candidate of these men you dare to appeal to the plain peo ple for their support and- do It without blushing? Oh, reform, what crimes are being committed In thy name! ' Attempt to Incite V iolence , a l cnarge you with having accepted, by your diatribes against th national committee, to incite the people to riot and bloodshed. Have you forgotten what you' said about such a crime and a crime It is in your first message to congress after in assassination of President McKfnlcyf nav yom rorgotten that you sent your then secretary of state to New York to charge MK; Hearst with responsibility for that great national calamity? But Mr. Hearst's editorials were mild as com pared with' your furious- outbursts In Which you characterised -'honorable men as thieves and brigands. ' The popular mind was unusually excited at the Unh and every, tru patriot felt it his duty to counsel calm deliberation. An authentlo f report actually reached the hall in which the committee met that its members were ' to be mobbed. If the, plan, after all, f failed ot execution, you, sir, can claim the crBuu ior n, as on tne contrary, you were engaged from morning till night pouring oil Into rSe Ere. '. WIHil Betrayal of Friea4. 1 9.1 charge you with having betrayed a friend ,In the person of President Taft, Your standard of morals may be different ' xrom mat or U common mortals, but surely jthe ordlm cltisen would rather do pennance for the balance of his life than to hav such an Indictment hurled against him. - You had left .your suc cessor a deficit ot $56.003,000 : and besides bequeathed to him th tariff , question and other knotty problems. You saw him struggle bravely for the publlo good un der difficulties, which. In their totality, almost amounted to a tragedy, hut in stead of hastening to bis aid to lighten the burden, such, as any upright friend would have done, you secretly conspired with , his enemies and finally fell onto his back when h had every reason to count on your friendship and support Even today neither he nor th country can account for your faithlessness ex cept on th theory of your own inordi nate ambition or the legal procedure against your pet trusts. . , Coatraat of Society and Sanaa, M. I shall not only support Mr. Taft, but oppose you with all legitimate means at my command, because ot th contrast between you and him. Mr. Taft is sane, safe and Judicious, and under him th country's progress and peace will b se cure. He Is a man worthy of the dignity of his 'office. During th last years of your administration I had almost be-1 come disgruntled with publlo Ufa, Your constant playing to the galleries, your hobnobbing with the political bosses, your continuous political dickering and bidding for notoriety and your perpetual declarations without" actual performance had thoroughly disgusted me, and the cant and insincerity of it all had gotten on my nerves. And do you know what reconciled me to continue public service? It was the advent of President Taft After all the sham here was pur gold again! Standing before him with his kindly, open face beaming on me, I felt instinctively that I was facing th majesty of an honest and sincere man, and in hla more than three years of In cumbency he has not. In a single instance, fallen short of that first good impression. But what is the use of telling you? You know all this to be true and have said the same things yourself, only in much stronger and .more glowing language. These ten reasons may suffice for the present to explain my attitude In this campaign." There' are others, but I do not wish to strike below the beirunless com pelled to.. RICHARD BARTHOLDT. MIRTHFUL EEMAKKS. 1 hear your dangWes's very mnslcal. Mrs. CoraMjp." , . 1 suppose so. BUSTS aiwaya the sympathy concerts and talking about snorters and catcalls and this and tnai fellow's 'O puss." Baltimore American. Hs They' say the woman's vote In that precinct Is very light . She Why, nearly every woman voter down there is a brunettei-Boston Tran script. 'Ther Is a man In this town whom I've never once allowed to treat me wax I didn't have to pay for it afterwards- "Who's he? The champion mean m'74o; my doctor."-Baltimore American. "Waa Faegs present o a new motor car to his wife a spontaneous gift on nis "rather think it was a case of strong auto suggestion." Baltimore American. ::Why did you strike the deceased on the head with an oar after he had rocked the boat and fallen out?" ,. "Because he knew how to swim. Houston Post. "Do you believe everything that candi date says in his speeches?" "That's not the question," replied tne constituent. "It's his place to see if he can say anything I belleve."-Washlngton Star. THE The man who limps who is foot soresuffers because he WILL riot because he MUST. i ? The Stetson Corndodeer is made for men who love foot ease. It will bring back the boyish comfort weary men have missed for ' years. T . . J .11 ILL 1-1 J. 2 C "- , . II you aouDt. uus.iet us put a pair vi vuiu- dodgers on your feet the way jhey look and t feel .will convince you they're Vorth many4 . . times their cost. , - ' ""V;f. . , ! Ta RED DIAMOND it the high tign of Shoe Merit HAYDEN BROS. :M Sixteenth and Dodge Sts, Omaha "Stetsons cost more by the pair but less by the year" 'fit," . ' W 4 I !il"lll iThe lushing uch-- ; Electric Light ,:n ' ; , SW "Ah .there's an inviting house. What 'a difference light makesespecially electric relight" ;. -: ' . Y-:y' , 'JsV."That!s' Jones' house. , Yes, electric sighting is- the finishing touch to a perfect home-rlarge or small. It insures health, con venience and comfort It's one of the strong, attractions of a popular home." SAe. ''Yesthat's very evident. Let's call dn themand ask who wired their house; We : must have electric light immediately." - Omaha Electric Light and Power Company J - . i-3 -id Y The : The Fourth Infantry, U. S. A., stationed at Ftrt Crooke havc Guard Mount each forenoon at 1030 a m. (weather permitting). Dress parads Tuejdav and Fridav afternaons at 4:30 cm. Persons desiring t view these Interesting drills can reach the Fort on cars leaving 24th & "N" Sts,. South Omaha, at 10 a, m, and 4 p, m. 9oilia & Southern Inferurbaa Railway Company